"...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony……" — John Dewey
"...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life."
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205 Quotes by John Dewey
John Dewey has 205 quotes on this site.
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power…
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The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete…
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully…
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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More Disturbance Quotes
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one of 139 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater…
— Anatole Broyard
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According…
— Alice Miller
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
— John Hospers
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about,…
— Sun Tzu
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The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can…
— George Perkins Marsh
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Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let…
— Dalai Lama
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Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of…
— Sigmund Freud
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Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned,…
— Rajneesh
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
— Charles Lyell
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You must be a deeply anxiety-ridden person, otherwise chain-smoking is not possible; chain-smoking is a by-product. You must be so…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation means how to be not a mind. How to be not a mind! Meditation means how to create the…
— Rajneesh
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